"Hm?"
At Tang Kui's words, Jiang Xiaobai's expression shifted slightly.
The Elder Princess?
The person inside this Phoenix Carriage was actually the Elder Princess?
Jiang Xiaobai narrowed his eyes, and the secret letter Jiang Jingcheng had just shown him surfaced in his mind again.
The most crucial line in that letter had been... beware of the Elder Princess!
He had been wanting to meet this Elder Princess, yet she had actually approached him first?
And she had even recognized him?!
Wariness instantly stirred in Jiang Xiaobai's heart.
Standing beside him, Tang Kui clearly noticed something amiss with Jiang Xiaobai's expression, and his brows creased slightly.
But with the Phoenix Carriage stopped before them, he asked no questions.
Jiang Xiaobai quickly composed himself, stepped forward, and bowed respectfully toward the Phoenix Carriage. "Your subject, Jiang Xiaobai, greets Your Highness."
"What instructions does Your Highness have for me?"
Jiang Xiaobai's voice was neither servile nor overbearing. He neither feigned familiarity nor showed any obvious distance.
As his words fell, silence lingered inside the Phoenix Carriage for a moment.
Then a slender, jade-white hand slowly emerged from behind the curtains.
It was extraordinarily pale, like the finest mutton-fat jade, with delicate fingers and a wrist white as frozen frost.
Yet just as Jiang Xiaobai glanced over, the hand gently withdrew.
The curtains swayed slightly, never revealing the face of the person within, but that soft voice sounded again.
"Oh, nothing in particular."
"I merely heard that you took the title of Literary Champion in the literary competition today, Heir Jiang, and then shone brilliantly at the Imperial Court."
"So I stopped especially to offer my congratulations."
Her voice remained soft and lovely to the ear.
Yet the more it was so, the deeper Jiang Xiaobai's wariness grew.
Nothing in particular?
*The exalted Elder